Melanie Pinola

iDreamBooks is a new webapp designed to help you find the best books to read, by aggregating book reviews by professional critics. Self-dubbed "the Rotten Tomatoes" of books, iDreamBooks makes finding your next read pretty simple.

While there are lots of other ways to get book recommendations, many of those rely on users' preferences and reviews. If you put more stock in professional book reviews from the Washington Post or A.V. Club, for example, iDreamBooks is a useful site.

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The web app recommends books that have 70% or more of critics giving them a positive rating—these are identified with smiley cloud icons. You can sort books by genre, bestsellers, recent, and more (although, unfortunately, there's not a quick "must reads" filter that shows only those highest-rated books).

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Clicking through on a book title shows excerpts and links to all the critics' reviews.